Erykah Badu = Not Bad

The songstress impressed the heck out of the New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones. Sez Sasha of her concert at Radio City Music Hall on Friday night:

Instead of saying that Badu’s performance will not be bettered any time soon (though it won’t), I’ll say that her show gave everyone in the house serious bragging rights. Dylan in 1965, Metallica in 1985, Bad Brains in 1981—it was one of those points on the arc. If you want to know who is at her peak, who is both of her moment and channelling so many forces that her work spills out over the edges of history and stops time, that’s Erykah Badu in 2008.